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Item Description

Title: Valentine G. Barney to Maria Barney

Author

• Barney, Valentine G., 1834-1889

Recipient

• Barney,Maria, 1833-1884

Source Document

Description

Writing from Bolivar Heights, West Virginia topics include not hearing from the men left at "W" (Winchester? or Washington?) and the regiment encamping with the 60th Ohio Regiment and the 126th New York Regiment, not hearing or having any word of what military actions are taking place unless troops hear the firing of guns, reference to prisoners being paroled, of soldier committing suicide and Barney encouraging troops to partake in evening singing to keep up morale. Maryland Campaign Sept 3-15, 1862.

Genre(s): correspondence

Subject/topic

• Postal service
• Soldiers -- Suicidal behavior
• Morale

Subject/name

• United StatesArmy.Vermont Infantry Regiment, 9th (1862-1865)

Subject/geographic

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns

Language(s): English

Note [Digital Version]

2012-02-07, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries

Type of Resource: text

Parent Collections

• Vermonters in the Civil War
• Valentine G. Barney Correspondence

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